Every time your bank card is cloned or skimmed from an ATM or by scammer, or stolen from a website or a phishing attack, your credit card is wide open for a thief to use until you catch on and cancel it.

The credit card, dubbed Motion Code, includes a small show in the reverse of the card across the touch strip which randomly creates the card’s new security code — the card verification value (CVV) — every hour, based on The Memo, which discussed to the business, Oberthur Technologies. This makes the card worthless for any burglar who has the number of the card with no CVV that is new.

The disadvantage for the user is that they are going to need to input the auto-created security code every time a purchase is made by them. Awful news for anyone who is memorized the numbers on their card.

It is only one drawback, however. If a burglar steals your real credit card the card will prevent on-line credit card fraud, but will not help. (My million-dollar idea? Every credit card should come with the owner’s photograph. There, you can have that one for free.)

Two leading French financial institutions, Groupe BPCE and Société Générale, are readying the cards for a broader rollout. Poland has found some successes with the cards in another trial.

A trial may be on the cards with an UK bank shortly, if all goes well.